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New Huo Technology unit gets $14M loan from ex-Huobi CEO Leon Li to cover client funds stuck on FTX
Hbit Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of New Huo Technology, has approximately $18.1 million worth of assets stuck on FTX, which filed for bankruptcy last week, according to Nov. 14 press release. Hu...
‘What. H.’ — Sam Bankman-Fried’s latest tweets spark scorn as well as concern
The latest message from former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried left onlookers puzzled and alarmed after the swift decline into bankruptcy for the cryptocurrency exchange he founded. In successiv...
Alibaba’s Cainiao opens LatAm headquarters in Brazil
Alibaba’s logistics arm Cainiao has installed lockers in Brazil for local customers to retrieve packages. Cainiao BEIJING — Alibaba’s logistics arm Cainiao announced Monday the opening of ...
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda quietly used FTX customer funds without raising alarm bells, say sources
Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The quant trading firm Sam Bankman-Fried founded was able to quietly use customer funds from his exchange FTX in a way that flew under the radar of inv...
Cryptocurrency Solana Collapses in FTX Scandal
Solana, considered, until recently, to be one of the cryptocurrencies with a promising future, is in the process of completely collapsing. The token lost 61.6% of its value in the last seven days, acc...
Bankrupt Voyager Digital Looks for New Buyer After FTX Goes Under
Bankrupt cryptocurrency broker and lender Voyager Digital Ltd. said it has resumed its search for a buyer in light of the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, the firm founded by wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fr...
Walmart Is Flexing Its Muscle Again
America’s biggest retailer has a new message for its suppliers: We’re not going to pay higher prices anymore. Walmart Inc. Chief Executive Doug McMillon delivered the warning in person last month in a...
Retail analysts foresee holiday-season sales growth. Now we’ll hear from retailers themselves.
Even as price increases squeeze shoppers, analysts expect holiday-season sales to increase this year. With Walmart Inc., Target Corp. and discounters TJX Cos. and Ross Stores Inc. reporting results in...
A Berkshire Hathaway Bright Spot: Energy. Here Are the Numbers.
Warren Buffett likes energy. Berkshire Hathaway now owns some $58 billion of Chevron and Occidental Petroleum securities. It isn’t Berkshire’s largest holding; that would be insurance, led by auto ins...
FTX bankruptcy: Can account holders expect to get their money back?
FTX, the unraveling cryptocurrency exchange, has plummeted from its high-profile perch straight into bankruptcy court. On Friday morning, FTX and related entities including Alameda Research, its affil...
Opinion: Pain and losses in crypto will clear out the losers and strengthen the case for bitcoin
Cryptocurrency is a mess right now. And rightly so. I wrote about buying bitcoin for MarketWatch in 2013 when it was trading for $100, but I’ve spent the past year or so warning that most newer crypto...
FTX bankruptcy is ‘somebody running a company that’s just dumb-as-f___ing greedy,’ says Mark Cuban
Billionaire Dallas Maverick’s owner Mark Cuban recently offered his perspective on the implosion of crypto platform FTX late this week. “‘That’s somebody running a company that’s just dumb-as-fucking ...
Binance’s CEO Warns Crypto Crisis Is Not Over
Changpeng Zhao is warning investors that FTX’s rapid crash is not the last one for the digital currency market. Known as CZ because of his vast influence in the crypto sphere, the billionaire is...
Sell Intel Stock, Analyst Says. Market Share Losses Are the Concern.
An analyst at J.P. Morgan says sell Intel stock, citing concerns about the company’s loss of market share amid ongoing competition and softening PC demand. Following a period of restriction, J.P Morga...
‘Bitcoin will be the winner because bitcoin is a digital commodity and it’s the least controversial of everything’: MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor
“‘Bitcoin will be the winner because bitcoin is a digital commodity and it’s the least controversial of everything.’” — Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy In an interview Thursday morning on CNBC, MicroStr...
FTX’s stunning collapse nothing like Theranos, says venture investor and crypto bull Tim Draper
Tim Draper, founder and managing partner of Draper Associates and Draper University, balked at comparing the stunning implosion of crypto trading platform FTX to the notorious biotech startup Theranos...
FTX bankruptcy: Tom Brady, Steph Curry set to lose big from company’s collapse
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried lost his entire $16 billion fortune in just a few days after his company filed chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday, but he’s not the only high-profile investor ...
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Buys Up Intel, Mobileye Stock
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger recently has been buying up shares of the chip giant that he helms, but he has spent far more for shares of recently spun-off Mobileye which is developing autonomous driving te...
How AMD Stock Could Rally Another 20% to 30% From Here
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – Get Free Report has not had an easy run this year, but like other technology and chip stocks, it has been finding its groove lately. On Thursday, I looked at the ...
Big Japanese Investor Finds Itself Caught In Another Debacle
SoftBank Group has struck out on several its latest investments since several of them have proved to be nearly worthless. One of the largest Japanese investors, Softbank made a bet on cryptocurrency b...
‘I have never before seen a CEO take responsibility as he does’: investor Bill Ackman comments on Sam Bankman-Fried in now-deleted Tweet
Bill Ackman, famous hedge fund billionaire investor, defended former chief executive of crypto exchange FTX Sam Bankman Fried’s leadership in a now deleted Tweet on Thursday. “You have to give @SBF_FT...
‘A lot of people have compared this to Lehman. I would compare it to Enron’: Larry Summers comments on FTX bankruptcy
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is likening the collapse of troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX to the meltdown that engulfed Houston-based energy company Enron two decades ago. In an in...
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